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单词 sheltered
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shelteredadj.

Brit. /ˈʃɛltəd/, U.S. /ˈʃɛltərd/
Etymology: < shelter v. + -ed suffix1.
a. In the senses of the verb.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [adjective] > of the nature of a shelter > sheltered
sheltered1597
covert1610
covered1685
screened1696
shrouded1841
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. v. 32 Well well, he was the couertst sheltred traitor That euer liu'd. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 403 Whose branching arms..might shield From dews and damps of night his shelter'd head. View more context for this quotation
1744 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons (new ed.) 176 There let me sit beneath the shelter'd Slopes.
1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude vi. 85 A garden seat in a sheltered nook.
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 742/1 The contrast between the sheltered and the shelterless.
b. sheltered life, a life protected from the ordinary hazards and hardships of living. Also sheltered existence.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun] > specific
sheltered life1888
douceur de vivre1907
lifestyle1915
Lebensform1925
douceur de la vie1941
good life1954
alternative lifestyle1968
slow lane1972
champagne lifestyle1973
1888 R. Kipling Thrown Away in Plain Tales from Hills 14 There was a Boy once who had been brought up under the ‘sheltered life’ theory; and the theory killed him dead.
1920 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Feb. 185/1 Three thousand dollars and no business experience, thirty-three years of sheltered life, and two children under ten years of age—this was my problem when I was left a widow.
1937 P. G. Wodehouse Summer Moonshine (1938) xix. 221 Hers had been a sheltered life... She had never been brought face to face with tragedy.
1959 J. Kirkup tr. S. de Beauvoir Mem. Dutiful Daughter ii. 117 She led a very sheltered existence in the Basque country, where there were not many eligible young men.
1977 W. H. S. Smith Young Man's Country ii. 35 I had lived a fairly sheltered life in England... Now for the first time in a position of responsibility and power, I was learning how people behave.
c. Economics. Designating trades, industries, etc., which are not exposed to competition, and the commodities in which they deal.
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society > occupation and work > industry > [adjective] > types of industry generally
heavy1888
light industrial1919
sheltered1924
military-industrial1925
Tayacian1934
footloose1939
linked1942
low technology1956
high technology1964
smokestack1976
old economy1990
1924 Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 4/5 In the so-called sheltered trades real weekly wages have generally been maintained at at least their pre-war level.
1925 F. L. McDougall (title) Sheltered Markets. A study of the value of Empire trade.
1928 Brit. Industr. Future (Lib. Indep. Inq.) i. ii. § 2. 17 There is a great difference between the increase [in wages] in sheltered and unsheltered industries.
1930 Times 24 Mar. 22/3 Comparing..miner's earnings with those of men employed in the so-called ‘sheltered’ occupations.
1930 Economist 4 Jan. 24/1 The higher Japanese price-level is accounted for largely by such ‘sheltered’ goods as red beans, miso.
1972 Wall St. Jrnl. 9 Aug. 1/5 A number of tax shelter plans are designed to allow investments in sheltered industries like oil.
d. Affording relief or exemption from tax; untaxed. U.S.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > [adjective] > free of tax or exempt
untaxed1464
taxlessa1618
untaxable1648
untaxed1846
unscotted1865
tax-exempt1925
sheltered1955
1955 W. J. Casey Tax Sheltered Investm. (ed. 2) xix. 205 Partnership operation allows you a write off of losses, a sheltered return on a quick success by sale of your partnership interest.
1970 Tax Sheltered Investments (A. Anderson & Co.) i. 1 All sheltered investments generate one or more of these advantages.
1974 Los Angeles Times 13 Oct. iii. 9/2 The second $50,000, which was to be ‘sheltered income’, was to be sent..directly to an insurance company as a payment for an annuity purchased by Hunter.
e. Designating places for living or working (or suitable work) provided for the mentally or physically infirm, where special assistance and facilities are available.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > types of workplace generally > [adjective] > for the disabled
sheltered1961
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [adjective] > sheltered
sheltered1961
1961 Oxf. Mail 16 Mar. 4/6 The three-storey house [for patients of a mental hospital in the final stages of readjustment to community life]..was opened last month and is known officially as a ‘sheltered hostel’.
1971 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 3 Apr. 11/4 One of these tenants is a humble man who earns R14 a week in a sheltered employment factory.
1973 Howard Jrnl. 13 276 Sheltered workshop facilities, industrial training or punitive labour.
1976 Ilkeston Advertiser 10 Dec. 16/2 The county council had already decided to stop the grants—towards general improvement areas,..council house adaptation for the handicapped and sheltered housing.
1977 New Society 3 Mar. 441/2 Patients leaving Herrison [Mental Hospital] have been ‘graded’ according to the kind of home they can cope with outside. Those least able to run their own lives are in sheltered accommodation.
1980 Times 23 July 12/2 If you are still undecided about sheltered housing or a home, you might investigate the various facilities.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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